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TIL: Northwest Angle, MN was created when map maker, John Mitchell miscalculated the source of the Mississippi being the Lake of The Woods.

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NNv1 TIL Over 40M people of Irish descent are in the United States, 8x more than the population of Ireland.
rNXQw TIL that the world record for the longest cutscene in gaming history is the epilouge cutscene in Metal Gear Solid 4 with a length of 71 minutes. Second place is the pre-final battle cutscene for the game Star Ocean: The Last Hope with a length of 46 minutes.
awwpA TIL Star-nosed moles smell underwater by exhaling air bubbles onto objects and then re-inhaling them to smell the scents they have trapped.
GAoGj TIL about exotic atoms. These are semu-stable elements, not on the periodic table, made from other fundamental particles. They can sometimes even bond with regular atoms.
wLDYW TIL Spider-Man's trademark web-swinging technique in "The Amazing Spider-Man" was done using practical effects instead of the cgi used in the previous films. They built a giant rig that allowed a stuntman to swing from a thin cable attached to a winch over and through the real streets of NYC.